Little Falls transcript., 1887-06-10
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
Farm MISCELLANY.

Farm Miscellany
I When water from stream is turn
ed upon grass lands it is not advis-
able to keep it running continually,
but the water should be turned on to
q part at time, leaving the other
part a few days to dry. It is better
to water copiously for "a hours than
to keep constant drizzle with a little
water, which will not go so far. aud
spols the grass as far as it goes.
shrinkage OF cream depends largely
upon the rapidity with which it is,
raised. II warm milk. say at ninety
degrees, is plunged into ice cold water,
the cream globules will rise in g. few
hours. One hundred inches Of cream
raised under these circumstances will
shrink IA to Is per cent. more than
cream raised from milk cooled slowly
and allowed to stand at f. tempera-
ture Of sixty degrees. Ii the first men,
tloneQ conditions occur III simmer,
the above mentioned shrinkage will
occur. II the latter in winter, none
will occur.
Some recently compiled dairy sta
tistlcs may prove interesting: About
$2,O00,0O0,00O is invested in the
dairy business Of the United States;
100000 cows supply the milk, and
it takes 6O,0OO,OOO acres OF land to
feed them and TOO, 900 men and !, 600.
900 horses to attend to them and the
milk they produce. These COWS and
horses consume annually 3O,OOO.OOO
tons OF hay, 9O,OO0,OOO bushels OF
cornmeal and oatmeal, 275,OOO,O00
bushels of oats and various other
grains, the total cost OF which is
about $4O0, 100000 per year, while
the hired help costs $168, 100000.
The yearly return for this investment
is 6,75O,OOO gallons of milk, which at
an average OF twelve cents per gallon,
would bring $81O,OOO,OOO.
In summering ham a lady CORE.
spondent Of the Michigan Far mer has
had excellent results from the follow.
ing practice, which gives the added
advantage OF placing the meat always
within easy and convenient reach:
Pack the slices very firmly into a
stone jar without any cooking, then
cover with about two inches OF melted
lard. When a slice is taken out some
lard will adhere to it; melt this and
return it 20 the jar hot; then fry or
hrOil the ham and it will be very fresh
and nice"
l consider the first two months on
pasture as worth as much to the
stock as the succeeding four, and my
reasons are that at this season there
are few flies and tormenting insects,
no excessive heat, an abundant sup
ply OF pure water and fresh, sweet
grass, and / base this estimate on
long experience in grazing, and the
grain cattle will make during May and
June. Now, perhaps, glancing at the
title OF this article, you say, what has
this to do with "Hints for Winter"
just this, that the profit of this best
grazing season OF the year depends on
whether your cattle are well inter-
ed or not, for in one case they will
have been kept thrifty and gaining in
flesh all winter, and in the other they
will not only have lost flesh which
must be regai,ed, but will also have
taken on an untbrifty habit.-W. F.
Brown, in Farmers Review.
A Buffalo dispatch says: Unusual
quantities of black walnut lumber
haye been passing east from points in
Ohio, Indiana and Iowa for some
weeks past. The shipments have at
tracted attention among lumber deal
ers, and it is learned that a company
OF English Capitalists, with whom a
wealthy combination in Indianapolis
is cooperating, have been for a year
more quietly getting possession OF all
the black walnut timber it has been
possible to buy, and are now shipping
1T to England. The writer's inform
ant, who was g. buyer for those par
ties, says that the traveller on the rail.
roads through the walnut belts will
see at nearly every important station
portable steam saw mills at work
early and late, ripping up black wall
nut logs into planks OF a convenient
size for shipment.
Chicago alone, ''The Michigan Farm
err asserts, sells more so-called "Pure
Vermont Maple Sugar. than the en-
tire output Of the Green Mountain
state. 1t is made of glucose and cane
syrup, the necessary flavor being sup
piled from q preparation of hickory
bark.